She didn’t have the courtesy to reply. Then of course she was elevated to Baroness.

In January 2004 Tonge was asked to step down as children’s spokeswoman by Liberal Democrat leader Charles Kennedy after saying of Palestinian suicide bombers: “If I had to live in that situation – and I say that advisedly – I might just consider becoming one myself.” Tonge refused to apologise: “I was just trying to say how, having seen the violence and the humiliation and the provocation that the Palestinian people live under every day and have done since their land was occupied by Israel, I could understand…”

Just as well for her that she didn’t try Richmond again, as Zac became my MP. She stood no chance against him and he has proved how useless she was in comparisson.

“Estimates for 100bn barrels of oil are very misleading,” said Matthew Jurecky, GlobalData’s head of oil & gas research and consulting. “Rarely are formations that homologous where a single discovery can be extrapolated over a very wide area.”
Last week, UK Oil & Gas Investments Chief Executive Stephen Sanderson said: “We think we’ve found a very significant discovery here, probably the largest onshore in the UK in the last 30 years, and we think it has national significance.”
However, Mr Jurecky has dismissed such claims based on limited results produced by a single well. He argues that just 15m barrels of oil may actually be recoverable from the Horse Hill site based on conventional understanding of the geology and restrictions in the local area.